George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, Critic
"I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while."
Sickness quotes
Sickness
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Thomas Fuller
Physician
"Health is not valued till sickness comes."
Osamu Dazai
Novelist
"Addiction is perhaps a sickness of the spirit."
Bob Marley
Musician, Singer-Songwriter
"Forget your troubles and dance! Forget your sorrows and dance! Forget your sickness and dance! Forget your weakness and dance!"
Petrarch
Poet, Scholar
"Virtue is health, vice is sickness."
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"Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul"
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"Antisemitism is just another form of racism. It's the same sickness, whether it's about Christians, about Islamophobia, which is horrible. It's all wrong. It's all the same."
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"There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood."
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"I am strongly convinced that not only too much consciousness but even any consciousness at all is a sickness."
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"Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It's the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore."
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"When in sickness, look to the spine first."
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"I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness."
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"Love is a sickness full of woes, all remedies refusing."
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"Crime, folly, sickness and all phenomena must be contemplated with complete freedom from fear aversion or shame. Otherwise we shall fail to see accurately, and interpret intelligently; in which case we shall be unable to outwit and outfight them."
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"Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love."
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"I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior."
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"Where there is ignorance, sickness will thrive."
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"Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness."
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"Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation."
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"I am, I am not, I will be, I will not be are vein thoughts which is a sickness and once all are eliminated no desire arises."
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"Let us remind ourselves that our work is far from complete. Where there is poverty and sickness, including AIDS, where human beings are being oppressed, there is more work to be done. Our work is for freedom for all."
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"When you are sick of your sickness you will cease to be sick."
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"Can there be worse sickness, than to know that we are never well, nor can be so?"
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"Education is suffering from narration sickness."
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"Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other."
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